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Jamie Bosworth, founder and CEO of the Back9Network – a fledgling golf lifestyle TV and online programmer based in Hartford – has resigned, the company announced Friday. Bosworth quit "to pursue other career opportunities," Back9 confirmed in a statement shortly after midday. There was no further explanation. His exit came about five weeks after Back9's announcement that it had signed a multiyear deal for a channel on DirecTV, its first television contract, and that it would be adding many as 40 jobs to its existing staff of about 50. The new CEO will be Charles Cox, who has been Back9's chief financial officer and head of business development since joining...

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